Anthurium longicuspidatum Engl.

Araceae

Collection NumberCroat, T 94384
CollectorsT. B. Croat, C. Davidson, S. Christoph
Identified ByT. B. Croat
SourceC. Davidson
Date08 February 2005
CountryEcuador
provincePichincha
LocationAlong road between Tandayapa and Mindo, vicinity of Tourist Lodge, 6.5 km N of Tandayapa on old road from Nono to Mindo.
Lat/LongS 00 01 19 W 78 44 49
NoteTerrestrial; internodes short, 3 cm diam.; petioles 37-55 cm long, 4 mm diam., heavily tinged purple, semiglossy, flattened and narrowly sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy, bicolorous; midrib narrowly rounded and paler above, narrowly round-raised and paler, sharply ridged below; primary lateral veins quilted-sunken and concolorous above, acutely pleated-raised below; tertiary veins in part raised below; inflorescence erect; spathe spreading, 7 cm long, 2.7 cm diam., medium yellow-green, glossier outside, sometimes becoming heavily tinged violet-purple; spadix dark olive-green, glossy; pistils dark violet-purple; mature berries pale yellow-green, tinged violet-purple at apex.

Local Habitat

1.4km distance

LocationEcuador, Prov. Pichincha, Along road from Tandayapa to Mindo via Bellavista, 1.7-2.1 km not beyond Bellavista., S 00 01 02 W 078 44 07
Date14 February 2005
EcologyCloud forest.

6.9km distance

LocationEcuador, Pichincha, Vicinity of Bellavista Cloud Forest Preserve, along side road to Bellavista Scientific Research Station and side road to Nanegalito, departing main Bellavista-Mindo Road, 1.2 km S of Bellavista, 0.3 km to 1 km west of Tandayapa-Mindo Road., S 00 01 16 W 078 41 07
Date27 March 2006
EcologyMedium to high elevation cloud forest

6.9km distance

LocationEcuador, Pichincha, vicinity of Bellavista Cloud Forest Preserve, along side road to Bellavista Scientific Research Station and side road to Nanegalito, departing main Bellavista-Mindo Road, 1.2 km S of Bellavista, 0.3 km to 1 km west of Tandayapa-Mindo Road., S 00 01 16 W 078 41 07
Date27 March 2006
EcologyMontane rain forest.